Diamond mining in Angola opening to South African entrepreneurs

Angola is working to ensure that the biggest South African companies in the diamond mining sector can operate in the country, the head of strategic planning and mineral operations of Angola’s national diamond company (Endiama) recently stated in Luanda. ...Read More

Barclays Botswana starts brand shift

Gaborone - Barclays Botswana, like the rest of the African operations, has begun a process to rebrand to Absa. Only Barclays Kenya, out of the 12 African operations, has requested more time to implement the process. ...Read More

African SMEs stand to grow with Afrimart launch

Cape Town - Afrimart, the Pan-African pioneer Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce platform for products made in Africa, which officially took off on July 17, is offering prospects of catapulting the otherwise less exploited intra-Africa trade to greater heights of growth. ...Read More

Angola’s Catumbela airport to receive certification in 2019

The national certification process for Catumbela airport in Benguela province may be completed in February 2019 if the Empresa Nacional de Navegação Aérea complies with security standards in the area adjacent to the infrastructure, the director-general of Angola’s National Civil Aviation Institute said in Lobito. ...Read More

The Southern Times is a SADC regional newspaper which circulates throughout the Southern Africa region. Launched in September 2004, the newspaper is a 50-50 joint venture between New Era Publications Corporation of Namibia and Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited. It seeks to report stories from a pan-African perspective, and promote Africa values with Africans telling their own stories from politics, business, arts, entertainment, culture, travel and tourism, and sports.

The Southern Times is headquartered in Windhoek, Namibia, and has offices in Harare, Zimbabwe. It has correspondents stationed in most of the 16-member SADC countries – from Angola to Zimbabwe - who contribute articles.